Improvement in grain-elevators



FRANCISTAGGART, LEVIS` S. OHICHESTER, AND CLARK YV. MILLS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. ASSIGNORS TO GEORGE H. NICHOLS, OF

SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN-ELEVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,495, dated June 27, 1865; antedated June 152, 1865.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANCIS TAGGARTL, LEWIS S. CHIcHEsTER, and CLARK W. MILLS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented and made a certain new and useful Improvement in Floating Grain-Elevators; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, whereinl Figure l is a cross-section of our improved floating elevator, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

Grain generally arrives at tide-water in canal boats and barges, and usually in bulk. Heretofore it has been'usual to discharge such grain by a steam-elevator into a store-house, or else into a vessel for transportation, by means of a iloating elevator. These oating elevators have to be placed between the canal boat or barge and the vessel or store-house, and in Wet Weather the discharging of the cargo often has to be suspended, because the hatches cannot be left open for introducing the elevator.

The nature of our said invention consists in an elevator applied between two oats, andin a deck or house covering the space between said oats, and into which space the canal boat or barge is oated, so as to be entirely under cover, and at the same time the elevator is made much more steady in consequence of its baseibeing broader, and space is furnished in the deck or house for the temporary reception and storage of grain or its transportation from place to place; and the same deck or house can be used for drying, cleaning, and cooling the grain previous to its delivery on shipboard, or for grinding grain or feed, or any like work arising in connection with'the grain or flour business.

In the drawings, a e are hollow floats or narrow vessels, whose timbers are extended sufficiently above the decks, as at b b, for the reception of a platform or deck, c, that connects the floats together, and at the same time ample space is left between the floats for a canal boat or barge to ,be drawn in and have its cargo discharged while beneath and protected by said platform or deck c.

The Iioats a c should be provided with rud` ders, as usual, and with propellers driven by a suitable engine or engines, so as to be procontain a drier and cooler for the grain, and

also a second elevator for passing the grain to a vessel or store-house, and in this house f fannin g-mills and machines for cleaning or grin ding grain may be introduced, if desired.

The elevator d is set to be raised or lowered in a frame, g, by means of a winch, h, from which a rope or chain passes over the pulleys 'i i to said elevator d, this device being required for raising the elevator as the canal boat or barge is drawn in between the floats, and for lowering said elevator as the grain is discharged. The elevator d is provided with a spout, 7c, that passes into the trunk l, so that the delivery pipe or spout will not become disconnected or allow the grain to `spill out as the elevator is raised or lowered. The elevator d should be inclosed in a house or tower, as seen by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

We have represented a canalboat at m, and shown the grain as being delivered in bulk into the house f by the elevator d. A

What we claim, and desire to secure by Leta ters Patent, is-` 1. ,A floating elevator for grain, formed with a deck extending across above a space left for the reception of a canal boat or barge between two floats, and provided with an elevator or In Witness whereof We have hereunto set our elevators Working through suoh'deok, for the* signatures this 21st day of November, 1864.

removal of grain from the said canal boat or FRANCIS TAGGART.

barge, substantially as specified. LEWIS S. GHIGHESTER.

2. The spout 7c,slidi11g in the trunk l, in CLARK W. MILLS.

combination with the elevator d, tted to be Witnesses:

raised o1' lowered, as and for the purposes LEMUEL W. SERRELL,

specied. v THos. GEO. HAROLD. 

